An authoring tool (or process) to facilitate the performance of an annotation function and an indexing function. The annotation function may generate informational annotations and word annotations to a database design schema (e.g., an entity-relationship diagram or “ERD”). The indexing function may...http://www.google.com.hk/patents/US7512609?utm_source=gb-gplus-share專利 US7512609 - Methods, apparatus, and data structures for annotating a database design schema and/or indexing annotations